Target Audience: Grades 3-5
Description:
Introduce your students to the exciting career of engineering as they develop abilities of technological design. Challenge your students to design a structure to meet a specific need. Working cooperatively, students will build a structure and evaluate their design, then communicate their design process and product. Focus of the unit is to build a truss bridge large enough for students to crawl across.
Science Skills:
The curriculum is correlated to the National Science Standards:
- Science and technology - abilities of technological design; understanding about science and technology.
- Science in personal and social perspectives - science and technology in local challenges.
- History and nature of science - science as a human endeavor.
Life Skills:
- Learning to learn
- Planning and organizing
- Cooperation
- Problem solving
Cost:
Free bridge building check-out kits and preview copies of the curriculum are available.
Nicole; Meridith
5/28/2007